Facebook continues to have a negative relationship with activist news service Ötekilerin Postası who provides activist news with a radical left and pro-Kurdish perpestive. Today, it announced from its Twitter account its Facebok page was closed again and it listed the not much reasonable reasons to close down its pages or cases of censorship…

Not only in Roboski but in many cities, citizens commemorate the Roboski massacre today… 34 villagers died in Turkish planes bombardment:

The Roboski strike, also known as the Uludere massacre,Sirnak massacre, or Roboski massacre took place on December 28, 2011 at 9:37 pm local time near Turkish-Iraqi border. Two Turkish F16 jets fired at a group of villagers, acting on an information that PKK militants were crossing the border. According to Turkish government sources 34 cigarette smuggling civilians were killed in the incident.

Just this morning I hear the news in Twitter that some high profile businessmen, including infamous Ali Ağaoğlu, close to AKP circles are detained…

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Hakan Şükür, a former well-known football player, close to Gülen movement, resigned from being an AKP MEP last night. The photo below from the good old days. Mr. Gülen was the witness in Hakan Şükür’s wedding while Mr. Erdoğan was the mayor to approve the marriage certificate… Very likely, tension between Gülen movement and AKP leadership leads to gross violation of law again:

AKP touts Turkey as a law and order state. Lately, it’s been more concerned with imposing a certain kind of autocratic order. It has cracked down on critics and anyone stepping out of line of a narrowly defined set of conservative norms, arresting people left and right not on the basis of evidence, but rumor and denouncement, and sending police to harass people (eg students living off campus) about behavior that is not illegal, but disliked by the prudish, thin-skinned government. This free manipulation and massage of the law to fit personal and community whims gives license to judges and prosecutors to do the same. So no matter that laws regarding crimes against women and children have in recent years been improved, their implementation remains in the hands of officials who do not care what is in their law books, but only what is in their “hearts”.

The Economist (UK) Saturday, December 14, 2013 p. 28-29 The biggest achievement of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, during a decade of rule, has been to get the army out of politics. He did it with the help of the country’s most influential Muslim cleric, Fethullah Gulen (pictured), who lives in self-imposed exile in